It is hard to guess what a Common noctule weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common noctule (Nyctalus noctula) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Common noctule is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Nyctalus). It is usually born with about 5 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Common noctules can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The common noctule (Nyctalus noctula) is a species of insectivorous bat common throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Common noctule
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Hodgson’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Eastern red bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Southern yellow bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Tricolored bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Eastern false pipistrelle with a weight of 22 grams
- Western small-footed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Papillose woolly bat with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Common noctule
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctalus noctula:
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Tufted pygmy squirrel bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Greater red musk shrew bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Malagasy mountain mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Winter white dwarf hamster bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Texas mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Greater mouse-eared bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- New Guinea free-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Western false pipistrelle bringing 23 grams to the scale
- California pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Common noctule
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common noctule:
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arctic shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little native mouse with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Slender harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crowned shrew with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Crawford’s gray shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese shrew mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little desert pocket mouse with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Common noctule
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Common noctule:
- Yellow-bellied brush-furred rat
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat
- Barasingha
- Jameson’s red rock hare
- Southwestern myotis
- Cuvier’s gazelle
- Hawaiian monk seal
- Black howler
- Pampas deer
- Biak glider
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Common noctule
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Common noctule:
- Bengal fox with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Least weasel with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Javan warty pig with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Cave myotis with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Jamaican fruit bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Kodkod with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Banded mongoose with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Saiga antelope with an average maximal age of 12 years